Re: [sgroup] New S-550 user with Mac floppy disk questions

At 05:30 PM 9/28/2015, you wrote: I read with interest on this thread, and I got Translator and Translator Free www.chickensys.com running where you can write S5x floppy images (usually .OUT files) to DS/DD floppies using a USB floppy drive on a Mac. Fortunately this works because the Roland is a 9-sector geometric format, just like a MS-DOS disk. (If it were a 10-sector one like Akai or Ensoniq or Emu, it'd be different.) But of course it's not a MS-DOS file system so that's where Translator comes in. It's not public yet, but it's done, so if the OP is interested, or anyone else, please email privately and I'll give details and link info. For a screen shot on what this sort of looks like, see: www.chickensys.com/_images/s5xfloppy.png Also, using the USB floppy of mine, which is nothing special, it works just fine in Yosemite. OSX formats a DS/DD floppy as well as a DS/HD - just go into Disk Utility and Erase to MS-DOS (FAT) format. AFAIK these things never need "drivers" or anything so I'm a little confused what you guys were talking about. Just to note, CDx does NOT support S5x, only S7x. (Perhaps you were using the Convert Load S5x images that you converted into S7x images.) Translator has a very advanced S5x convertor to other formats, does the job very, very well. It also is a modern program that runs on Yosemite and even El Capitan, as well as Windows 10 down to XP. (And it runs as low was Tiger OSX 10.4 and PPC machines. We are also working on a ->S5x conversion routine, it's not done because - well, it's an old format, and people aren't threatening us with death on getting it (as opposed to other more modern needs). If you are all desperate for it, threaten us with death or torture and maybe we'll hurry it up. =) Garth Hjelte Sampler User